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I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed so I assume we're talking about a clueless (or malicious?) teacher defacing the flag raising at Iow Jima, in order to promote the obvious commercialimperialism motives for Amerika during WWII. Someone help me, need more info, linkage, content, can you feed a brother with smartness.

I was bordering on snarkiness. Its exposure (OK, lack of) and environment that put most of these people out of reality and its tearing our country apart. And for young impressionable HS/Colledge age males it is usually in the pursuit of the female that drops the intelligence firewall and gets hacked in return. I might phrase it another way, but family freindly and all...

Pi$$es me off. Mortimer Duke was wrong, it is environment that eff people up or down.

I find this as distrubing, disgraceful, and offensive as most of you who frequent this blog but please, have some perspective. I went to high school in a large city in the 60's. Most of you probably didn't get the chance to study that era yet as it is not that far back... However, I can tell you this pales in comparison to what we were experiencing then - riots, Viet Nam "unrest", racial divisions. And look, our society made it through those "dark days". Yep, Americans are a resilient bunch!

You'd actually be surprised how hard it is to find curricula that is pro-America.

Now, I'm not raising my boys to think that *everything* that *every* explorer/colonist/soldier/or government official ever did was 100% virtuous, but for goodness sakes! Let's try for some intellectual honesty!

We study history chronologically in a four year cycle. So, first year is Ancients, second year is Medieval / Renaissance, third year is Early Modern, fourth year is modern history. Repeat.

Last year we studied early modern, which covers, approximately, the years 1600-1850. Do you realize almost every modern book ( ~90%) about the explorers and early colonists is from the perspective that "white people came to kill Indians and steal their gold"? Or, if you gt one of the few conservative books being published (~ 10%), it is from the perspective that *every* colonist and founder was a Christian that wanted to set up a Christian theocracy where America was/is the New Israel.

I finally had to start looking for books published prior to 1960 to find books that were free of either bias.

This year we're studying modern history, which is 1850-present. Oy vey! We covered Vietnam last week. This week we got to study about how the wonderful Jimmy Carter brought together Israel and Egypt. Sigh.

Anyone know of any child-friendly, pro America resources for events from 1980 to the present? Or at least books that are not America/Reagan/George W. Bush is the devil?

I LOVE YOU GOH! Ding ding ding! WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!!! He knows exactly what kind of children go to that school! (Note for you non-Virginia types, it's a very expensive and elite area with million+ dollar homes and parents who have reached the pinnacle of power in many areas.)

<span>Not shocked. </span><span> </span><span>Of course, I was a college TA for a year at one of the Virginia colleges. The VA public school system was very good at sending us kids who could barely read. And couldn't write a coherent sentence let alone a paragraph or research paper. </span><span></span><span>Good job VA public schools.</span>

I am home-schooling my youngest. She's a wicked smart 11 year old anyway, but I can't stomach the way things have been distorted in our schools. Add to that the politicization of the teachers, and the sycophamts in the PTA, and it's too much.

For a more intelligent discussion of McDonald's around the world than that teacher seems to be able to do, this blog is interesting. Be sure to read the selections from several places. I wonder if the sneering leftist teacher has ever left the US and travelled to understand what a place like this means overseas to the tourists, homesick Americans and the locals.

surf, Agree it's not as good as "Band of Brothers" and seems pretty tame so far. However, it has been fairly faithful to the Sledge and Leckie books on which the screenplay was based. I'll get back to you after the Peleliu episodes regarding whether it's too romanticized or not.

It's unfortunate that these kids don't have the opportunity to be exposed to the high school faculty that taught me. The history teacher who parachuted into Normandy on D-Day, the geometry and English teachers who flew B-17s over Germany, the ROTC MSgt who received a Silver Star and CIB as a sniper in the Philippines, the Korean War veterans. They came away from their wartime experiences with viewpoints that ranged from nationalistic to anti-war and we as students were exposed to both points of view. Of course that was a different era but it was one in which a variety of perspectives on the role of this country in world were presented to us so that we could develop our own political outlook as we matured. It's not the fact that there's a moron like this guy influencing his students that bothers me as much as the lack of a countervailing opinion.

DS, It's not as bad as the editorial cartoon that one of the Seattle papers ran a few years back (on Memorial Day no less) that showed the flag raisers pushing up an oil derrick. You'll be glad to hear that the paper has since gone out of business as anything but a website.

I definitely wasn't taught this way; I graduated high-school in 1993. :-D

From what I remember of my school days, we haphazardly covered our community, Mummies, our state, Abraham Lincoln, the Pilgrims, Martin Luther King, Jr., and.... oh, yeah. Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. (That last one, seriously, is the only fact I remember being taught in 10th grade high school history! LOL!)

In my old bad communist high school days we went for Ancient (until 476) -Medieval-(until 1492)- Early Modern (until 1795 - 3rd Partition of Poland, but that would be the time of both US Independence War and French Revolution)- Industrial Modern (until 1945). Everything after 1945 was considered political sciences. Of course books were anointed with Marxist rhetoric, but otherwise quite sound knowledge was passed, and everybody knew who really has been doing the shootings in Katyn - it was just silently acknowledged nobody would mention it to not rise troubles for our teacher. Nobody actually tried to force "interpretation" of the history, teachers were too busy forcing the knowledge of what actually happened - and when - into our teenage heads.

Ewok, The first time I visited Albania in '93 we toured their national military academy. During the tour we were given a briefing in a room filled with empty bookcases. It turned out this had been the library and the government had decided to remove the books because all of them, even the technical ones, were loaded with Marxist philosophy and rhetoric.

Brad - I am reminded of the joke about how different news outlets would handle nuclear war: The NYT would, of course, look at how women and minorities are hurt most; The WSJ would analyze the effect on commodity prices.

Gotta love the great Texas schoolbook imbroglio. For decades the far left has controlled what goes into kids textbooks but now they're screaming bloody murder because patriotic Americans have taken over the state school board.

Several years ago one of the kids at church showed me his American History book. No disrespect to ML King, but when he gets more space then all the founding fathers combined there's something wrong. When the internment of Japanese Americans rates higher than Pearl Harbor, the Bataan Death March, the Rape of Nanking and the Nazi death camps I begin to see a pattern. When the Iroquois Confederacy is credited with inspiring the US Constitution I think they have gone over a PC cliff.

Because of our frequent move in conjunction with PCS orders, our eldest daughter studied American history in California, Virginia, and Rhode Island. She learned about the "Mission Trail", Jamestown, and Plymouth Rock in addition to getting two extremely different perspectives on the Civil War/War Between the States.

Your comment about textbooks is on target, one of the reasons why we always monitored their assignments and made sure our girls understood that there was more to history than just what was in their textbooks. Fortunately, they both grew up to be good, informed citizens although their political views differ from one another.

Well, here it was less forced, there was usual nod to the powers that be, imagine that in a foreign books shelf of my city library I've found no less than Edward Luttwak's "Grand strategy of the Soviet Union". Was major eye-opener for me as I saw first time the real gargantuan size of Soviet military.